"It has been a good year for Indy Lights grads in the FedEx Championship
Series," said Indy Lights President Roger Bailey. "Paul's win in Houston
brought the series to a significant milestone and is one of six wins by
former Indy Lights drivers in Champ Car competition this year.

Tracy also won on the Milwaukee Mile and joins Moore (Miami), Fernandez
(Japan), Kanaan (Michigan) and Herta (Laguna Seca) as former Indy Lights
drivers who have won in CART this season.

Tracy earned the first win for an Indy Lights driver in CART competition
at Long Beach in 1993. He has won half of the races Indy Lights grads
have captured in Champ Car competition and 1999 is his fifth
multiple-victory season in CART.

Moore has five CART wins, Fernandez has four victories and Ribeiro won
three times before leaving the series at the end of 1998. Herta's two
wins have been earned in the last two races at Laguna Seca while Kanaan's
last-lap victory at Michigan was his first.

Following encouraging tests with its own drivers Didier Andre
(Motorola/PlayStation Lola) and Tony Renna at Sebring in August, PacWest
Lights will put four more PPG-Dayton Indy Lights drivers though Champ Car
runs next week at the Putnam Park road course outside of Indianapolis.
Series front runners Oriol Servia (Catalonia/RACC/Elf Lola), Casey Mears
(Sooner Trailer/American Racing Custom Wheels Lola), Philipp Peter (Red
Bull/Remus/ESTEBE Lola) and top rookie Scott Dixon (Speedbet/Diagem Lola)
will each have a full day behind the wheel of PacWest Mercedes-Benz
Reynard. The race car is the same 1998-spec chassis fitted with a 2000
Reynard gearbox that Andre and Renna drove.

"Didier and Tony did an excellent job four us at the Sebring test, and we
wanted to give other Indy Lights guys a shot at driving a Champ Car," said
PacWest's Vice President of Racing Operations John Anderson. "The focus
is on developing the new gearbox but it's a good opportunity for these
young drivers to get some seat time in a Champ Car. I don't think that
Champ Car teams are supporting the Indy Lights drivers or the series as
well as they should. I'd like to see other CART teams do more to
encourage our home-grown talent, regardless of where these jokers may have
been hatched."

Mears takes to the wheel first on Monday, October 4, and will be followed
by Dixon, Peter and Servia testing Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
respectively. Plans call for each driver to get a full day on the road
course.

Servia leads Mears by 14 points, 130 - 116, in the PPG-Datyon Indy Lights
Championship with only the season-ending race at California Speedway to be
run on October 31. Peter is third in the standings while Dixon is fourth
and leading the rookie standings.

"We are extremely grateful to PacWest for giving so many of our young
drivers an opportunity to test a Champ Car," Bailey said. "By the end of
next week, PacWest will have run six Indy Lights drivers, more than any
other FedEx Championship Series team has ever tested. We know that, if
given the chance, our guys can stack up against the world's best and we
thank Bruce McCaw, John Anderson and everyone at PacWest for making this
possible."

Servia and Mears were among the attendees at this week's announcement of
the new Aruba Motorsports Complex facility that will be built on the
Caribbean Island. Construction of the new permanent road course commences
immediately with the PPG-Dayton Indy Lights Championship scheduled to end
the 2000 season there on December 3. The facility will also host separate
races for the Trans-Am and American Le Mans Series in its first season of
operation.

Nearly 200 media and motorsports VIPS attended the event which was hosted
by veteran race operator Ralph Sanchez who is building the facility with
Aruba partners through his new company, Motorsports Americas, Inc. The
project has the full support of the Aruba government.

Both Mears and Servia visited with the press throughout the event with
Servia, who is from the Catalonia region of Spain, spending ample time
with media from Venezuela, Panama, Brazil and other countries.